Re: [Tracker] text search is implicitly always OR

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Marcus Fritzsch wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > yes can-do!
> >
> > I could have the prefix "~" to prevent the addition of a "+"
> >
> > So to sum up it would be *and* by default and "~" must be prefixed to
> > all terms to make it an *or*
>
> That sounds reasonable to me - any counter proposals?
>
> What about people being accustomed to the quite omnipresent "AND" and
> "OR" throughout search engines, in the future there might be the need
> to implement a front end that produces mysql matches for such
> strings... Uh - am I going too far?


thats indeed possible - I cant expect everyone to use the xml based RDFQ 
to do so. Considering there is a parser in glib I will look into this at 
some point.


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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